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Title: Effects of 60 Hz electrical fields on operant and social stress behaviors of nonhuman primates: Summary

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6904606· OSTI ID:6904606

The objective of this program is to investigate, using the baboon as a nonhuman primate surrogate for the human, behavioral effects associated with exposure to 60-Hz electric fields. Results from this program, along with information from experiments conducted elsewhere, could be used to estimate and evaluate the likelihood of deleterious consequences resulting from exposure of humans to the electric fields associated with power transmission over high voltage lines. This program is being conducted at Southwest Research Institute as part of an international collaborative information exchange and scientific research effort involving the United State Department of Energy, Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry, and Japan's Central Research Institute of the Electric Power Industry. Since August of 1984, four major research projects were successfully completed. 48 refs., 12 figs., 2 tabs.

Research Organization:
Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
DOE/CE
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-80RA50219
OSTI ID:
6904606
Report Number(s):
DOE/RA/50219-18; ON: DE90012575
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English